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The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Mapping wildfire hazard, vulnerability, and risk to Canadian communities

Erni, Wang, Swystun, Taylor, Parisien, Robinne, Eddy, Oliver, Armitage, Flannigan
Large and intense wildfires are an integral part of many Canadian landscapes, playing a critical role in ecosystem dynamics. However, the recent catastrophic fire seasons have highlighted the threat that wildfires can pose to human communities. Identifying areas at higher fire…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Common denominators of fire behavior on tragedy and near-miss wildland fires

Fighting large wildland fires is often compared to a military operation. Each involves such things as: an organization with a general at the head, massive movements of personnel and equipment; tactical aerial support, and long periods of combat and stress until the enemy is…
Year: 1996
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Findings from the wildland firefighters human factors workshop: improving wildland firefighter performance under stressful, risky conditions: toward better decisions on the fireline and more resilient organizations: workshop sponsored by USDA Forest

Putnam
From the text...'It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have lost 23 people who might have…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed-fire safety

Staton
As a restorationist who has been conducting and supervising prescribed fires for more than 18 years, I have long been concerned about the casual way many restorationists approach this potentially dangerous aspect of restoration. I would like to suggest that restoration-oriented…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mental health and traumatic occupational exposure in wildland fire dispatchers

Verble, Granberg, Pearson, Rogers, Watson
Wildland fire dispatchers play a key role in wildland fire management and response organization; however, to date, wildland fire studies have largely focused on the physical hazards and, to a lesser extent, mental health hazards of wildland firefighting operational personnel,…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES